% blackboard typefaces by Anthony Phan.
% file: readme.txt (informations and licence)
% last modification: 01.01.2000.

NAME OF THE GAME

`m' stands for Mathematical or Metafont or even Modern,
it is supposed to be the name of the foundry.
`bb' stands for BlackBoard or Blaboard Bold.
It is the design type.
`X' stands for the encoding (void if it is my own one).
`X' stands for shape (r: roman, s: slanted, etc).
`XX' stands for design size.

So mbb10 and mbbcr10.

ELEMENTARY THINGS

There are files named xxx.mf that should be placed in
a directory where your MetaFont program can find them.
Then there are mbboard.tex (plainTeX input file),
mbboard.sty (LaTeX input file) and  mbboard.dcl
(file related to the former ones), that should
be placed somewhere TeX can find them.
I won't tell you how to deal with all of this.
You must know how to proceed (that's not complicated anyway).

The only supported fonts are mbb10,..., mbb5.
Things like mbbr10, mbbsl10, mbbi10, mbbsc10,
mbbgr10, mbbheb10, are more or less goodies
enabled by the capabilities of the main files.

To get an overview of the whole stuff, one should
run every fonts and TeX mbbtest.tex.
  
LICENCE

The same licence as the one imposed by D. E. Knuth
for Computer Modern should apply: do not distribute
altered files if you are not changing the names...
I stay in charge of maintaining those programs and
making them progress.

I say that they could progress? Yes, and they'd better do.
Typographical designs should not be frozen until, at least,
they have reached some very high level of perfection.
Nobody could wait for that. So here is the present stuff,
with a SEND-ME-A-POSTCARD supplementary licence.

Here are the reasons why: first, if you are happy,
you would communicate your joy to me and that would
be a nice thing (you can also send me your books, or
even your mathematical papers), then, if you think
that inprovements have to be made, you could tell
me those on a piece of paper with some drawings,
or even right down the ligns of source code you want
to be changed. For the matter of the encoding of the
main fonts, it has to be discussed directly: it's a
too big thing to be written down on a postcard.

By the way,

HAPPY TeXING!

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Anthony PHAN

I.R.M.A.
7, rue Ren\'e Descartes,
F-67084 Strasbourg cedex.
